20 movies like Getting Straight, ordered by similarity : The History Boys(2006), Her Twelve Men(1954), Words and Pictures(2013), People Will Talk(1951), Lady Bird(2017), O'Horten(2007), Slap Shot(1977), Real Women Have Curves(2002), Educating Rita(1983), Minnie and Moskowitz(1971), The English Teacher(2013), Admission(2013) ...
6.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1970
124 Minutes
Elliott Gould Candice Bergen Jeff Corey Robert F. Lyons Max Julien Cecil Kellaway Jon Lormer Leonard Stone William Bramley Jeannie Berlin John Rubinstein
graduate student student activist teacher administrator unrestrained offbeat california university lecture hall campus life activism values literature education transformation underdog discovery 1970s
A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.
6.8/10
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK
2006
109 Minutes
Richard Griffiths Frances de la Tour Stephen Campbell Moore Samuel Barnett Dominic Cooper James Corden Jamie Parker Russell Tovey Samuel Anderson Sacha Dhawan Andrew Knott
student headmaster gay/lesbian teenager friend teacher emotional profound england university education sex literature coming of age friendship loneliness discovery pursuit transformation sacrifice
An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
6.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1954
91 Minutes
Greer Garson Robert Ryan Barry Sullivan Richard Haydn Barbara Lawrence James Arness Rex Thompson Tim Considine David Stollery Frances Bergen Ian Wolfe
teacher student father professor widow classmate cheery heartwarming inspiring boarding school classroom dormitory gym student-teacher relationship disapproval boarding-school life school teaching new life underdog
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
6.6/10
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA|Canada|Australia
2013
111 Minutes
Clive Owen Juliette Binoche Amy Brenneman Bruce Davison Keegan Connor Tracy Adam DiMarco Valerie Tian Eva Allan Janet Kidder David Lewis Josh Ssettuba
woman man teacher art teacher english teacher student brooding charming emotional intense moving quirky witty uplifting prep school school america competition love courtship
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Comedy, Drama
1951
110 Minutes
Cary Grant Jeanne Crain Finlay Currie Walter Slezak Hume Cronyn Sidney Blackmer Basil Ruysdael Katherine Locke
physician student friend professor father dean offbeat quirky striking university hospital small town illegitimate child medicine morality friendship jealousy discovery love sacrifice
A doctor's unconventional theories of medicine and relationship with a young student place his reputation in jeopardy.
7.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
94 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Laurie Metcalf Timothée Chalamet Lucas Hedges Tracy Letts Odeya Rush Jake McDorman Beanie Feldstein Lois Smith Stephen McKinley Henderson Jordan Rodrigues
mother daughter teenager high-school student best friend teacher father moving uplifting playful california high school catholic school sacramento, calif. family home university united states prom mother/daughter relationship coming of age
In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
6.7/10
Comedy, Drama
Norway|Germany|France|Denmark
2007
89 Minutes
Baard Owe Espen Skjonberg Henny Moan Bjørn Floberg Kai Remlow Per Jansen Bjarte Hjelmeland Gard Eidsvold Lars Oyno Anette Sagen Bjorn Jenseg
engineer friend old man child police officer dog offbeat moving eerie train airport oslo retirement deception assault blindness family love discovery transformation
A drama focused on a life-changing moment in 67-year-old train engineer Odd Horten's existence: the evening of his retirement.
7.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1977
123 Minutes
Paul Newman Michael Ontkean Lindsay Crouse Strother Martin Jennifer Warren Jerry Houser Andrew Duncan Jeff Carlson Dave Hanson Yvon Barrette Allan Nichols
coach hockey player wife manager radio personality unrestrained hilarious offbeat small town hockey rink locker room charlestown hockey unemployment violence alcoholism sports underdog transformation 1970s
A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2002
93 Minutes
America Ferrera Lupe Ontiveros Ingrid Oliu George Lopez Brian Sites Jorge Cervera Jr. Felipe de Alba Soledad St. Hilaire Lourdes Perez Jose Gerardo Zamora Jr. Manuel Edgar Lujan
student seamstress teacher grandmother mother latina inspiring moving los angeles workshop house high school education self-esteem virginity tradition family dysfunction race relations discovery growing up
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
7.2/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1983
110 Minutes
Michael Caine Julie Walters Michael Williams Maureen Lipman Jeananne Crowley Malcolm Douglas Pat Daly Godfrey Quigley Dearbhla Molloy Kim Fortune Philip Hurd-Wood
hairdresser wife husband professor blue-collar worker alcoholic witty endearing touching amusing charming england the open university office great britain hair salon college campus student-teacher relationship self-esteem adult education
An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
7.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1971
114 Minutes
Gena Rowlands Seymour Cassel Val Avery Timothy Agoglia Carey Katherine Cassavetes Elizabeth Deering Elsie Ames Lady Rowlands Holly Near Judith Roberts Jack Danskin
parking lot attendant museum curator hippie mistress charming engaging offbeat witty los angeles unlikely romance unrequited love self-discovery heartbreak disillusionment love discovery transformation 1970s
A museum curator falls in love with a crazy parking attendant.
5.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2013
91 Minutes
Julianne Moore Michael Angarano Greg Kinnear Lily Collins Nathan Lane Norbert Leo Butz Jessica Hecht Charlie Saxton Nikki Blonsky
teacher student colleague headmaster father love interest amusing playful quirky lighthearted high school stage theater united states unlikely romance teaching theater second chance performance student-teacher relationship
An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.
5.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2013
117 Minutes
Tina Fey Paul Rudd Michael Sheen Wallace Shawn Gloria Reuben Nat Wolff Lily Tomlin Travaris Spears Elaine Kussack Michael Genadry Sarita Choudhury
admissions officer school principal son student colleague amusing quirky heartwarming university princeton, n.j. school office adoption education romance parenthood learning experience motherhood discovery transformation
A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
6.3/10
Comedy
UK
1959
86 Minutes
Kenneth Connor Charles Hawtrey Ted Ray Leslie Phillips Joan Sims Kenneth Williams Hattie Jacques Rosalind Knight
headmaster student inspector child psychologist english teacher music teacher amusing cheeky witty lighthearted madcap crafty england sabotage education teaching humor job hunting student-teacher relationship discovery
Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him.
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1945
109 Minutes
Rex Harrison Lilli Palmer Godfrey Tearle Griffith Jones Margaret Johnston Guy Middleton Jean Kent
playboy student secretary colonel best friend wife cool crafty engaging college england oxford university self-discovery seduction world war ii relationships bad behavior redemption discovery pursuit
Vivian Kenway (Sir Rex Harrison), a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1989
102 Minutes
Dorotha Segda Oleg Yankovsky Péter Andorai Paulus Manker Gábor Máté Andrej Schwartz Gyula Kéry Sándor Téri
mistress passenger anarchist sister lover thomas edison offbeat striking amusing budapest, hungary train twins wealth estrangement unusual romance chance meeting technology discovery transformation quest
Born in 1880 Budapest, separated identical twins (Dorotha Segda) finally meet as playgirl and anarchist on the Orient Express.
6.8/10
Drama
Russia
2016
118 Minutes
Pyotr Skvortsov Viktoriya Isakova Aleksandra Revenko Yuliya Aug Aleksandr Gorchilin Irina Rudniktskaya Svetlana Bragarnik Nikolay Roshchin
student young man christian friend teacher moralist bleak suspenseful emotional thrilling intense melodramatic russia school university classroom bible relationships evil fanaticism
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
Comedy, Drama
2018
101 Minutes
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir Jóhann Sigurðarson Juan Camillo Roman Estrada Jörundur Ragnarsson Vala Kristin Eiriksdottir Margaryta Hilska Þórhildur Ingunn Haraldur Stefansson Charlotte Bøving
environmentalist political activist choir director adopted daughter adoption agency representative amusing charming creative endearing engaging gutsy heartwarming hilarious offbeat positive quirky spirited iceland activism environmentalism
Halla is a 50-year-old environmental activist who crusades against the local aluminum industry in Iceland. As her actions grow bolder, her life changes in the blink of an eye when she's finally granted permission to adopt a girl from the Ukraine.
Comedy, Drama
2002
94 Minutes
Tatiana Saphir Carla Crespo Veronica Hassan Beatriz Thibaudin María Merlino Marcos Ferrante Ana María Martínez Susana Pampin Luis Herrera
lonely woman teen girl rebel lesbian kidnapper playful offbeat touching buenos aires, argentina shop cab beach road kidnapping road trip self-discovery female bonding boredom adventure discovery
Two lesbians (Carla Crespo, Veronica Hassan) force a lonely, overweight saleswoman (Tatiana Saphir) into a cab and take her on a road trip.
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1980
95 Minutes
Paul Le Mat Jason Robards Mary Steenburgen Jack Kehoe Pamela Reed Dabney Coleman Michael J. Pollard Gloria Grahame Elizabeth Cheshire Martine Beswick Charles Napier
gas station owner wife billionaire lawyer judge amusing offbeat sad las vegas desert gas station courtroom strip club utah howard hughes money american dream inheritance luck underdog
The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
6.7/10
Romance, Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
2006
96 Minutes
James McAvoy Alice Eve Rebecca Hall Simon Woods Catherine Tate Dominic Cooper Benedict Cumberbatch James Corden Charles Dance Lindsay Duncan
young man college student teammate young woman love interest host amusing engaging england university television studio bristol, england college life game show class conflict romance knowledge underdog love discovery
Set in 1985, working-class student Brian Jackson (McAvoy) navigates his first year at Bristol University.
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